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Economists are trained to manage scarcity. The physician is concerned with how best to manage the patient. Both are concerned with how to manage limited resources most efficiently. Both willingly accept the challenge of finding ways to provide economical care for stone disease therapy.
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Qureshi, S.K. (1997). The economics of stone disease therapy: An economist’s views. In: Talati, J., Sutton, R.A.L., Moazam, F., Ahmed, M. (eds) The Management of Lithiasis. Developments in Nephrology, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5396-6_34
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